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Seminar Description

For almost 600 years, people have marveled at the prowess of Joan of Arc, the 17-year-old who, with no experience, led French troops in driving the English from Orleans. How did she turn the tide of what history would call the Hundred Years War? How, too, could a young woman with no schooling respond with sophisticated simplicity to clerics determined to label her a witch? In this seminar we will consider that intriguing, heart-breaking story through the eyes of historians as well as playwrights, composers, novelists, visual artists, and ordinary citizens. Six sessions.

Susanne Dumbleton holds a PhD in literature (medieval) from the University at Albany and is Professor Emeritus and Former Dean at DePaul University. Her research focuses on women in leadership for social change.

Materials List

Required:

Anderson, Maxwell, Joan of Lorraine: A Play in Two Acts. Dramatists Play Service, 1946, ISBN-13: 978-0822205937